I have been in cazicthule for the last three days, and have tested
out a majority of the songs I have but never really used a lot.

* The Tae Diviner can charm people, and he usually does.
If your party identifies which player is whacking them,
charm them right back to your side and make them attack
the Tae. They are much more efficient under charm control,
than they would be otherwise. If they seem to break charm
too quickly, drag them in a room, and tell them to sit.

* AE fear (Screech) - all I can say is 'wow'. I can disperse
a 10 lizard train at the zoneline in 2 seconds. While being
swarmed in 4C, this song let me escape into the maze and back
to the courtyard. 4 mob limits do not apply 'outdoors' and
cazicthule is considered outdoors. My screen scrolled really
bad with '... flees in terror' as a horde of lizards ran off.

* Lullaby. I stopped using this song at level 16 when the novelity
wore off. Everytime I'd play it, I would usually die. Parties
don't understand how dangerous this song can be to the bard.
But now I mem'd it back in my song lineup, and at my level with
a lute, jeez, I can put things to sleep instantly with very little
resists. Same as Screech in that I can nod off as many lizards
that decide to show up, think I did 8 at once last night.

* Pixie Strike. Although difficult to track many mobs with this,
it works very good at balancing a fight when the odds look bad.
You must pull yourself out of weaving and combat, to click and
mez, over and over across multiple mobs - but it's worth it.
As for blocking casters with this, you either have to be lucky
or continue to strike them over and over. If you see a judicator
healing and you press your pixie button, you will almost never
catch the lizard in time. You will _never_ catch smites, they
are too quick, and you probably wont ever catch wrath. Twitching
the button on a visual spell cue means you are too late. Almost
need to cycle pixie on one target to keep it in check.

* Charm bugs: I have been playing with charm a lot recently.
And I have found a lot of bugs with it. Deadly bugs.

Mage and pet are attacking a monster, and I charm it. Sometimes
the pet STILL has the monster on it's attack list and decides
to attack ME the master of the monster. I was beaten up very
bad by a magician's own pet last night in cazicthule.

Party is fighting a monster, and another shows up and I charm
the new monster. One party member turns to attack the new monster
after charm wears off to 'pull it off me' - but I charm it again.
The monster now has the player who attacked it STILL in it's agro
list. And without me saying, /pet back off - the monster will
continue to beat down that player. In fact if I tell the pet
to guard me, it will start right back up and attack my own party
members.

I will /log as much of this as I can tonight, and try to make sense
of it all.

One more bubble til this hell ends...

Harmonic Distortion, 30th drummer.
League of Antonican Bards, The Wind Spirit's Song
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